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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain

Intelligence Squared

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Is There Any Difference Between Optimism and Bitter Sweetness?

Is there any difference between being optimistic and being open to bitter sweetness? I do think you can be an optimistic bitter sweet they just play out really differently. My husband's like really, really, very cheerfully optimistic. If you met him, you w'uld never think of him as a bitter sweet person. We see now there's a sweet, bitternesseeor view ovr the world, rather than bitter sweetness.

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